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Bulgarian ex-foreign minister and current Ambassador to France Irina Bokova won eight ahead of the third vote on Saturday. Photo by BGNES
The United Nations' agency for culture and education remains undecided about who will be UNESCO's next leader.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says on its Web site that a third round of voting Saturday at its Paris headquarters was inconclusive, as no candidate won the needed majority of 58 votes cast.
A fourth round is scheduled Monday.
The vote for UNESCO director general headed to a third round on Saturday after Egypt's controversial candidate for UNESCO director general failed to win an absolute majority in a ballot of world envoys on Friday.
Envoys to the United Nations cultural organisation started voting Thursday for a successor to Japan's Koichiro Matsuura as director general, with the Faruq Hosni, Egypt's culture minister for 22 years, seen as the frontrunner.
Hosni nevertheless held a comfortable lead over his three nearest rivals: European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner with nine votes, Bulgarian ex-foreign minister and current Ambassador to France Irina Bokova, who won eight, as did Ecuador's Ivonne Baki.
According to a diplomat at the organisation, cited by AFP the 71-year-old Hosni secured 23 of the votes from UNESCO's 58-nation executive council.
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